fasciola

See also: Fasciola

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fasciola.

Pronunciation

Noun

fasciola (plural fasciolae)

  1. (anatomy) A band of grey matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
    • 1883, Burt Green Wilder, On the Brain of a Cat Lacking the Callosum, Preliminary Notics:
      The last-named portion is shaded with lines to indicate that it retreats; it embraces parts of the fasciola and lyra

References

fasciola”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From fascia (band, bandage, swathe) + -ola (feminine diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

fasciola f (genitive fasciolae); first declension

  1. A small bandage of the legs.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fasciola fasciolae
Genitive fasciolae fasciolārum
Dative fasciolae fasciolīs
Accusative fasciolam fasciolās
Ablative fasciolā fasciolīs
Vocative fasciola fasciolae

Descendants

  • Translingual: Fasciola
  • English: fasciole
  • English: fasciola
  • French: fasciole
  • Italian: fasciola
  • Portuguese: fascíola
  • Romanian: fâșioară

References

  • fasciola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fasciola”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fasciola in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • fasciola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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